Re: [PATCH] Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures

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Hello.

On 03/29/2017 06:21 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:54 +0100, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking
for for allocation failures.  Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than
the type to fix checkpack warnings.  Also merge multiple lines into
one line for the kmalloc call.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value")

OK, but could you change patch title to be less generic ?

Also, what tree is this patch targeting ?

# ls -l drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
ls: cannot access drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c: No such file or
directory

This new driver is sitting in bluetooth-next right now for the next merge.

regards
Stefan Schmidt
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